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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 23, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7 a- <br />SUBJECT: West Ten Soccer Park Concept Plan Process and Update on Bidding <br />Procedures <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing & Central Services PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />Recreation and Parks <br />Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Vicinity Map <br />Subject Property Map Pam Jones, ext 2652 <br />(both under separate cover) Lori Taft, ext 2673 <br />"Next Steps" Summary Craig Benedict, ext 2592 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider apre-concept plan for the soccer park planned for the Euliss property <br />(working title West Ten Soccer Park); and to authorize the Purchasing Director to work with <br />Orange County Schools (OCS) and our mutual consultant, Corley Redfoot Zack (CRZ) to: 1) <br />determine the most appropriate method of bidding the soccer park element of the project <br />concurrently with OCS; 2) to approve the issuance of the bid for the pre-grading (earthwork) <br />component of the soccer park; and 3) to work with the Manager and Attorney to develop and <br />enter into an interlocal agreement between OCS and the County that formalizes the outcome of <br />this collaborative effort. <br />BACKGROUND: In June 2003, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) appropriated <br />funding that enabled the Orange County Board of Education to obtain options to purchase <br />several parcels of property on West Ten Road, approximately 1 mile between Mt. Willing and <br />Buckhorn Roads, south of I-85/I-40 (see attached map,) The property, totaling slightly more <br />than 100 acres, was being considered for use by the Orange County Schools (OCS) as the site <br />of a planned new middle school, and possible other uses, <br />In subsequent months, the Board of Education determined that it would not need for the middle <br />schcol the 33+ acre Euliss property that was part of the overall 100 acres. In March 2004, the <br />Board of Education purchased the remaining 67 acres, and Orange County purchased the <br />Euliss property with the intent of using it primarily as the site of a soccer complex with a working <br />name of West Ten Soccer Park, <br />